[LLVMdev] Parametric polymorphism

[Jon Harrop]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 21:27:21 DeLesley Hutchins wrote:
> Try implementing a generic complex number class in Java, and watch the
> two-order-of-magnitude drop in performance on scientific code.

Amen. I haven't proven it with a working HLVM yet but I believe LLVM will make 
it possible (even easy?) to generate extremely performant code from heavily 
abstracted high-level source.

Complex numbers are a great example where the JVM is terrible and .NET is much 
better but still many times slower than necessary.

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